(THIS IS A COPY PASTE, THE REAL PROBLEM SHOWCASE IT'S ON THE LAST POST)
Lately I've been freaking out because I was hearing crackles and I though my (relatively expensive) headphones were breaking
But now I'm REALLY glad to know that the problem it's on BASS's part which means my earphones aren't broken :D
Well let's talk about the problem, BASS seems make a crackle after a played sample reachs certain time (in this case when 85ms have passed since it started playing), those are the "Crackles" I've been hearing (and no, increasing buffer to a whole second doesn't fix it, I've tried all the other options as well)
In some samples it's really noticeable meanwhile in others it's not/maybe it's not even there at all
I've compared a recording of the same sample both played on BASS and on Polyphone (soundfont editor) and the BASS one sounds broken, with the OPL-3_FM_128M soundfont and the instrument 10 (music box) when playing C5 or higher (E5 it's especially noticeable)
This is a recording of C5:
As you can see both the BASS and the polyphone sample look pretty similar
But if you invert the wave of either and you play them at the exact time you get the "MIX", when using this technique basically removes the parts that are exactly the same so the mix it's how the parts that aren't the same in the samples sound
As you can see in the "MIX" (the one under it's the same but normalized) something changed when 48ms happened, that it's probably the crackle, polyphone doesn't make such cracke, that's why there is such a abrup volume change